Iran's ambassador to Tajikistan announced the transfer of the only remaining Iranian prisoner in Tajikistan to Iran. Mohammad-Taghi Saberi wrote on hisTwitter account: "With the follow-up and consultations of the embassy and coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the assistance ...

Dushanbe, May 22, IRNA Iranian Embassy here announced Wednesday evening Mahdi Qanbar, inmate of Tajikistans Yavan Prison in Khatlan province who got wounded while escaping and local media declared an Iranian citizen is not Iranian, but of Afghan nationality. The embassy communique on the issue has categorically rejected the news on being wounded ...

Tajik prison guards say they shot an Iranian citizen after he tried to escape from a penal colony in the town of Yavan, 54 kilometers south of the capital, Dushanbe. Officials at Tajikistan's Directorate to Monitor Penitentiaries told RFE/RL on May 19 that Mehdi Kambari was wounded in the incident on May 16 and sent to a prison hospital. An inmate,...